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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) decided to turn a local D.C. Boys & Girls Club into a tool of her relentless attacks against President Joe Biden Thursday morning, after Wednesday's annual Congressional Baseball Game.

Every year for the past 112 years (except for 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic) members of Congress have joined together to participate in the national pastime – these days a rare moment of sportsmanship and bipartisanship.

On Thursday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) took to Twitter to denounce President Joe Biden's social spending plans, claiming that they constitute "Marxism."

Rubio's comments were swiftly ridiculed by Paul Krugman, political commentator and Nobel Prize-winning economist. "Ah yes, remember that stirring line in The Communist Manifesto: 'Workers of the world, unite to spend 1.2% of GDP on popular programs over the next decade!" replied Krugman.

On Thursday, Rolling Stone reported that the Koch dark money machine is revving up to take down President Joe Biden's reconciliation package, commonly referred to as the "Build Back Better Act" — and is spending tens of millions of dollars in the effort.

"Koch-aligned groups are together spending millions of dollars on advertising, targeting moderate Democratic lawmakers, and pushing their influence in the halls of Congress to whittle down or outright kill the sweeping policy package, which would represent the largest expansion of the social safety net in the past 50 years and the biggest step toward addressing climate change in U.S. history," reported Andy Kroll and Geoff Dembicki.

Gov. Greg Abbott is failing to appease some inside his party — including former President Donald Trump — with the "forensic election audit" that the state announced Thursday.

Trump released a letter to Abbott on Thursday urging him to add audit legislation, which could allow a review of mail-in and in-person ballots across the state, to the agenda for the current special session agenda. Instead, the secretary of state's office announced later that day that it was already starting to audit the 2020 election results in four of the state's biggest counties.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bashed Republican lawmakers who needled Defense secretary Lloyd Austin during a hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Austin and other military leaders defended President Joe Biden's removal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of war, and the "Morning Joe" host rebuked Republican lawmakers' treatment of the officials during a congressional hearing, which prompted Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) to apologize on their behalf.

The replacement Line 3 pipeline -- the first new conduit from Canada's oil sands to US refineries built in years -- is "substantially completed" and will be ready to move oil starting Friday, Enbridge announced.

The Can$7.3 billion project had faced pushback from environmental activists and indigenous groups, but it was much less controversial than other proposed pipeline projects that failed to be green lit.

Senior Pentagon officials said Wednesday the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August could be traced to the 2020 US agreement with the Taliban signed in Doha that promised a complete troop withdrawal. Joe Biden has faced the biggest crisis of his presidency over the withdrawal in Afghanistan, drawing criticism from Republican US lawmakers.

This week, the US House and Senate started hearings of a congressional review on the troop pull-out in Afghanistan and the war itself. During its second day, General Frank McKenzie, the head of Central Command, told the House Armed Services Committee that once the US troop presence was pushed below 2,500, as part of President Joe Biden's decision in April to complete a total withdrawal by September, the unravelling of the Washington-backed Afghan government accelerated.

Lawmakers in Washington, DC took a break from Capitol Hill on Wednesday for the annual congressional softball game.

The first game since 2019 due to the coronavirus pandemic was won by Republicans 13 to 12.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell was visibly frustrated by the actions of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) as she continues to hold up President Joe Biden's infrastructure package.

O'Donnell, who got his start in politics as an aide to legendary Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and rose to staff director for the Senate Finance Committee.

The U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol has issued subpoenas for 11 additional Trump supporters being investigated for their role in overturning the 2020 election, which was won by President Joe Biden.

Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) announced the subpoenas in a statement released online on Wednesday evening.

A growing number of Republican pundits and politicians are entertaining or outright embracing the "great replacement" theory — a once-fringe white nationalist worldview that in recent years has crept into mainstream political discourse.

This theory, apparently first popularized in 2012 in a self-published book by the eccentric French novelist and diarist Renaud Camus, proposes that a cabal of liberals or global elites is attempting to "replace" the white European populace with nonwhite or non-European minorities. This idea had very little traction in America until recently, at least outside the fringes of the far right. But over the past few years, some prominent conservatives who are not overtly white supremacist have begun to embrace this notion publicly, claiming that their political opponents are enacting pro-immigration policies in order to diminish the electoral power of white voters.

A Colorado school board candidate has filed a lawsuit challenging the district's mask requirement at campaign forums — alleging she has a "nasal deformity."

Schumé Navarro, a self-avowed follower of the QAnon conspiracy movement who recently received the Colorado GOP's 2021 Rising Star Award, is alleging that Cherry Creek Schools violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by requiring her to wear a mask.